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Harry Potter Film

July 04, 2000|By Adrienne Cox.

MATTESON — I applaud J.K. Rowling's requirement that the movie characters from her Harry Potter books be British, human beings and not cartoons. I hope this decision includes filming in Britain. The flavor of the books is a lively British cup of tea--with lemon.

For once, let's not rewrite the dialogue into the current American "cute" jargon mix of bad grammar and inane rap-ish slang. Rowling is a master of the writing craft, and it would be nice if her style could prevail in the movie.

As an avid fan of the Potter books, where the names of the characters (akin to Dickens' nutty names) are creative and hilarious, I hope to meet, on the screen, the wizards and witches we have grown to love and hate.